Posted on 08/17/2010 1:54:25 PM PDT by jerry557
JACKSON, Miss. – Another teenage lesbian is suing a rural Mississippi school district, this time over a policy banning young women from wearing tuxedos in senior yearbook portraits.
Ceara Sturgis' dispute with the central Mississippi Copiah County School District started in 2009, well before a student in another Mississippi school district, Constance McMillen, found national attention in her fight to wear a tuxedo and take a same-sex date to prom.
On Tuesday, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit for Sturgis, claiming the Copiah County district discriminated against her on the basis of sex and gender stereotypes. Her photo and name were kept out of her senior yearbook.
The ACLU first contacted the district in October 2009 about the issue, but officials said they would adhere to a school policy. By the time Wesson Attendance Center yearbooks were released this spring, school officials had made clear Sturgis' photo in a tuxedo wouldn't be included. But Sturgis was surprised to see even her name was left out of the senior section.
"I guess in the back of my mind I knew that was going to happen, but I did have a little hope. I cried. I put my head down and put my hand over my face," Sturgis said Tuesday.
The suit challenges the district's policy allowing male students, but not female students, to wear a tux for senior portraits. The suit alleges a violation of Title IX, the federal law prohibiting discrimination based on gender.
Sturgis, who has worn masculine clothing since ninth grade and begins classes at Mississippi State University on Wednesday, said she felt as if she was being punished "just for being who I am."
District Superintendent Rickey Clopton didn't immediately return a call seeking comment.
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Plenty of lesbians in the Mississippi woods, apparently.
Ya know, sometimes sharia law makes a lot of sense.
Unless Gay boys were allowed to wear dresses she loses.
Yet another aCLU freak show. oy.
Good, I am glad this happened.
As if parents need to look at their childs High School yearbook to see some BS about gender disfunction.
HELLO!
Reading, riting, rithmatic...Remember....
You know what’s funny about these lesbos dressing in tuxes?
They claim they want to have “same sex” relationships,
but then one of them dresses like “the man”...
The Klan should just beat these people till they drop their idiotic court claims. Who needs Lesbos clogging up the already over-burdenend legal system? Of course there is no Klan most places and where they do exist half are jounalists trying for a Pulitzer and the other half are Feds on infiltration missions.
I loved that guy on “Punk’d”.
The great irony in all this is that these folks, be they just regular libs or GLBT or whatever are actively destroying the one nation where they have seen the most tolerance and protection of there ideas lifestyles and such.
In demanding recognition beyond what was already provided for in the Constitution, in demanding exceptions and hand outs and all the things liberalism is demanding they are taking apart America and the wall of protection it has afford those who for so many years lived safely and quietly behind it no matter the crazy ideas or perversions. All we ask is that they kept it to themselves.
Hoist on their own petard, I guess there is some justice coming if worse comes to worse.
ACLU = American Criminal Lunatic Union????
Looks like Justin Bieber.
Wait...
Maybe it is a girl...
What this country needs is somehow even more lesbians!
What’s wrong with the gubmint schools that they can’t manufacture more and at a faster rate!?
/s
The girls’ gym coaches are doing the best that they can with what they have to work with...
Isn’t that the panty waist that Demi Moore is married to?
They not only dress like "the man", they behave like "the man" in the relationship.
I've known a few "gay" couples, some of them children of friends. They are all extremely disfunctional relationships, and the parties involved display signs of serious mental and/or emotional maladjustment (at the very least).
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